Abandoned by her best friend just before a culturally significant event, 12-year-old Subaeda must learn to embrace her community's cultural beliefs and to navigate the miracle of friendship.
The literature on placebo mechanisms is diverse, and many questions remain to be answered before a comprehensive understanding may reach general acceptance. Here, we argue that the neural mechanisms underlying placebo responses must be understood in the context of a model-driven approach to brain function, i.e. using the methods of mainstream cognitive neuroscience.
The current theme on earth is change. In Times are Changing, authors Karin and Karsten Bie Jensen offer a look at these changes from a spiritual perspective, the larger scale of evolution, and everyday life. With information channeled to Karin from the spiritual sources of light, intelligence, powers, and speed connected with evolution on earth, this book answers the questions: • What is going on? • Why is it happening? • What is the purpose? • What do we need to do as individuals, if anything? In addition, Times are Changing looks at life after death, the soul levels, the changing of genders, values and habits here on earth, and more.
This report discusses the status of cold-case investigations in the United States and examines factors associated with successful ones, reporting a survey of law enforcement agencies about their current practices for investigating cold cases and an analysis of four agencies' files.
12-year-old Abel has to fight not only for knowledge, but for food, acceptance and friendship in the South Pacific Islands. This gripping story highlights universal family values and the cultural heritage on Vanuatu. Photos by by NatGeo photographer Raul Touzon add emphasis and color.
By browsing about 10 000 000 scientific articles of over 200 major journals mainly in a 'cover to cover approach' some 200 000 publications were selected. The extracted data is part of the following fundamental material research fields: crystal structures (S), phase diagrams (also called constitution) (C) and the comprehensive field of intrinsic physical properties (P). This work has been done systematically starting with the literature going back to 1900. The above mentioned research field codes (S, C, P) as well as the chemical systems investigated in each publication were included in the present work. The aim of the Inorganic Substances Bibliography is to provide researchers with a comprehensive compilation of all up to now published scientific publications on inorganic systems in only three handy volumes.
This masterwork flouts expectations." —FOREWORD REVIEWS, starred review Before Us Like a Land of Dreams follows a disheartened mother traveling an evocative route through the arid West. As her narration fades, the ancestral dead speak directly: a ragged Mormon boy yearns after a Shoshone family. A defeated polygamous wife shuts her mouth for good. A hoarder's queer son demolishes the artifacts of his lonely Idaho childhood. Descendants of British squatters sustain family delusions until a devastating suicide shatters their royal dreams. An elite colonial clan gradually awakens to the stark blue of the Great Salt Lake. The dead yield no answers, but they conjure vivid mortal moments set in iconic—and diminishing—American places. KARIN ANDERSON is a gardener, writer, mother, wanderer, heretic, and English professor. She hails from the Great Basin of Utah.
Marital status was a fundamental legal and cultural feature of women's identity in the eighteenth century. Free women who were not married could own property and make wills, contracts, and court appearances, rights that the law of coverture prevented their married sisters from enjoying. Karin Wulf explores the significance of marital status in this account of unmarried women in Philadelphia, the largest city in the British colonies. In a major act of historical reconstruction, Wulf draws upon sources ranging from tax lists, censuses, poor relief records, and wills to almanacs, newspapers, correspondence, and poetry to recreate the daily experiences of women who were never-married, widowed, divorced, or separated. With its substantial population of unmarried women, eighteenth-century Philadelphia was much like other early modern cities, but it became a distinctive proving ground for cultural debate and social experimentation involving those women. Arguing that unmarried women shaped the city as much as it shaped them, Wulf examines popular literary representations of marriage, the economic hardships faced by women, and the decisive impact of a newly masculine public culture in the late colonial period.
Women in Music: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography emerging from more than twenty-five years of feminist scholarship on music. This book testifies to the great variety of subjects and approaches represented in over two decades of published writings on women, their work, and the important roles that feminist outlooks have played in formerly male-oriented academic scholarship or journalistic musings on women and music.
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